El Día de los Muertos

For this project, we had to do what I would consider as two main parts. The main part was focused around our calaveras, for this part we created two satire paragraphs. Our first one was describing a profession, while our second described a celebrity. We also created an art piece to show one of our calaveras, I chose to illustrate my teacher related calavera. In the second part of this project, we took either a family member or a mentor of ours that had passed away and honored them with a paragraph describing them in Spanish.

My process of refinement throughout my work, but mostly for my calaveras was just simply writing my draft, going word by word and conjugating and correcting it, and doing this over and over until there were no more flaws, which took roughly four drafts.

My understanding of Mexican culture has grown throughout this project greatly, mostly throughout our study of The Day of The Dead. We learned all about this special holiday including how and why it is celebrated. I was really able to realize how much I had learned when I watched the opening scene to the new James Bond movie which took place during Day of The Dead in Mexico City and while I watched I thought back to all I had learned which was very interesting for me.

El raro que soy

1. One specific concept or skill that I learned over the course of this project would be how to conjugate verbs properly because before this project I would just guess the conjugation based on what I might have heard previously with no idea what I was doing or why I was doing it.2. My ability to describe people in Spanish vastly improved because I was able to learn how to describe people properly in a way that a Spanish speaker would understand as well as learning simple Spanish expressions so that I could describe in a basic way somebody's likes or dislikes.3. My art is representative of beautiful work because of how it took me a very long time to complete it as well as how I made sure my work looked nice and was legible. I could have improved by making my work look better, but I believe that since I actually used words only from my essay in a way that would make sense instead of focusing on beauty my work was different as well as beautiful.4. If given an opportunity to refine my work I would try to make my art drawing physically beautiful, because as I already said, I focused too much on it making sense and following the prompt of our letters that it did not look as good as possible and could probably look more beautiful physically.